Beijing Shiyuan Park

Beijing Shiyuan Park retains the original main venues, performing centers, outdoor exhibition gardens, and public green spaces of the World Horticultural Exhibition. Among them, the China hall will be built into an ecological civilization exhibition hall. The hall will comprehensively display the achievements of China's ecological civilization construction, and hold an ecological theme forum; The international hall is used to host international conferences, exhibitions, salons, lectures, film premieres, and other activities; The botanical hall was transformed into an ecological popularization venue; The characteristic boutique horticultural exhibition gardens of the Chinese horticultural exhibition area and the world horticultural exhibition area will be partially transformed to form the core display area of the “Never-ending World Horticultural Exhibition”. In the future, the park will also introduce large-scale music festivals, summer festivals, competitive activities, and research projects, so as to make full use of the EXPO's heritage.  

Yongning Ancient Town

Located 17 kilometers east of Yanqing District, Yongning Ancient Town has a long history. In the 12th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1414 AD), Ming Emperor Zhu Di set up Yongning County, and then the Thirteen Tombs were built in the county, so there is a saying that is “first there is Yongning Town, then there are Thirteen Tombs”. In the fifth year of Xuande (1430), Yongning town became an important military site in the defense system of the Great Wall. In the seventeenth year of Wanli (1589), 4 city gates were rebuilt, with Yinghui in the east, Zhenning in the west, Xuan'an in the south, and Weiyuan in the north. The city originally had prefectural offices, such as the county office, as well as the DrumTower, Bell Tower, and Jade Emperor Pavilion. Among them, the Jade Emperor Pavilion is the landmark building of Yongning Ancient Town, which was built in the eighteenth year of Tang Zhenguan (644) and is 28.2 meters high. The Cross Street in the city is composed of Shanzheng Street in the east, Guangwu Street in the west, Fumin Street in the south, and Gongji Street in the north. There are 15 large and small alleys in the eastern half of the city and 17 alleys in the western half of the city. Most of them were destroyed due to war and other reasons. Yongning Ancient Town has a typical northern square city pattern. The four gates are built with a barbican, and outside the barbican is a moat.

Translator: BAO Minmin

Reviewer: YUAN Ting